Speaking Conlang To Kids

On Tue, 6 Feb 2001 18:14:44 -0800 J Matthew Pearson
<pearson@...> writes:
> Mia Soderquist, sometime of this list (are you lurking, Mia?) got
> fairly good at speaking simple sentences in one
> of her conlangs, ea-luna.  IIRC, she tried using it around her young
> children in the hopes they would pick it up,
> with modest success:  I think they could understand a few words of
> it, and even deigned to produce a word or two
> now and then.  But this exercise neither helped nor hindered her
> children from acquiring English, and was certainly
> in no way traumatic for them.  Irina and Boudewijn Rempt have played
> similar conlanging games with their
> children--again, with no ill effects.  (Quite the contrary:  These
> games ended up spurring their creativity.)
>
> Matt.
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I'm pretty sure that when i eventually have kids they'll at least know
one phrase of Rokbeigalmki (like my brother), even if they know nothing
else of it:

"HAWA EZÁ????"

("what are you doing?????")

:-)


-Stephen (Steg)
 "we'd have to invent a new language.... with no word for 'tomorrow'..."
     ~ a scene from some play